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We are pleased to announce the publication of Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

It includes essays on working methods and collaboration by photography curator Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum, and an essay by Stephen Pyne, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University, that provides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. Details from the view at Point Sublime on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, based on the panoramic drawing by William Holmes (1882).

William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheets XV, XVI, XVII. Panorama of Point Sublime. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime (with a rough accounting of the parts of a day and some heavenly phenomena), based on the panoramic drawing by William Henry Holmes (1882).

William Henry Holmes, 1882. Key to the Panorama form Point Sublime, Looking East, South and West. From Clarence Dutton, The Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy Library of Congress).

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2007. One hundred and five years of photographs and seventeen million years of landscapes; Panorama from Yavapai Point on the Grand Canyon connecting photographs by Ansel Adams, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and the Detroit Publishing Company.

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Confirming the details of the moment across the geologic horizon of Marble Canyon. Views from a military spotting scope on the Platform where William Holmes drew the eastern edge of the Kaibab (1882).

Lithograph by William Henry Holmes, 1882. Sheet XIX, Views form the Marble Cañon Platform from the Eastern Brink of the Kaibab. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).

Middle: William Holmes, 1882. Sheet V, Looking up the Toroweap from Vulcan's Throne. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Right: William Holmes, 1882. Sheet VI, The Grand Canyon from the Foot of the Toroweap - Looking East. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2008. Piecing together "The Transept" with fifteen different pictures from five separate locations distributed across a half a mile.

Here's a link to the original Holmes and Moran image. This is a brief video that animates the reconstruction using photographs.

Left: Attributed to William Holmes and Thomas Moran, 1882. Sheet XVIII, The Transept, Kaibab Division, Grand Canyon. From Clarence Dutton, Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2010. Placing pieces of Thomas Moran's sketch "Grand Cañon of the Colorado" over the panoramic view from Dutton Point with part of the first photograph ever made from this remote location.

Inset: Thomas Moran, 1873. Grand Cañon of the Colorado. (Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma). And J. K. Hillers, 1872. Part of a stereo view. (Courtesy National Archives).